Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labrador") and quick farewell by the Press when she offered to lend Newfoundland $109,000.000 during its 1931 financial crisis (TIME, Aug. 10, 1931). A Brooklyn druggist said he had paid her $4,000 for a quarter-interest in twelve Newfoundland mines, later found they were owned by Montreal's Henry Cosgrove Bellew. Snapped Financier Lewis, leaving court: "When I get ready to talk there will be plenty to tell...
...Dominion and head of Barclay's Bank of Canada; Norman James Dawes, head of National Breweries, Ltd.; Hon. Charles Avery Dunning, a power in the prairie provinces; Hon. Charles Colquhoun Ballantyne, head of Sherwin-Williams Co. of Canada (paint); Sir Charles Blair Gordon, president of Bank of Montreal and an officer or director in some 25 corporations. Flippant brokers annoyed Calvin Bullock's Montreal office by solemnly inquiring why His Majesty George V failed to be elected to the board. The new trust will invest a small portion of its funds in such U. S. companies doing...
Explanation for the disaster offered by Montreal Light, Heat & Power Consolidated: gasoline had leaked into the sewer
...Vancouver. B. C.: one of the closest six-day bicycle races on record; by 14 points (for sprinting) from the teams of Norman Hill & William Grimm. Three other teams were in the tie for distance covered, 2,482 mi. and 9 laps. Month ago Peden and Jules Audy of Montreal who started the Manhattan race with Peden but was forced out by injuries after a fall, won a six-day race, in Chicago...
...dividends this year, a 50% gain over two years ago. Last week Charles McCrea. Provincial Minister of Mines, said that this year's gold mining activities in Ontario alone will split $45,000,000 between wages, supplies, taxes & dividends. Gold shares have soared in Toronto and Montreal. A further whet to speculation was news last week that famed Manhattan Speculator George Forsythe Breen and Sisto & Co. planned to invest $250,000 new capital in Barry-Hollinger Mines, a hitherto only fairly successful company whose shares sold at 3½? last month; 9? last week...